JULY CURRICULUM:

The order of the class is listed below.  Every element should be included in each class.  At the bottom of the page are videos demonstrating each exercise.  Links to cuesheets are also included.

​

PROP LIST:

• Hula Hoops

• Pom Poms

• Teacher Wand

• Teacher Bear/Book

• Maracas

• Sparkle Dust

• Ribbon Sticks/Rings/Colored Scarves

 

ENTRANCE: “Canon”

The Instructor will turn on the intro music (“Canon”).  When the music begins, the dancers will enter in a line form the door, walk to a circle in the middle of the room on demi-pointe, holding their bear in 1st position.  The dancers should then sit on their bottoms in the “Butterfly “position with long tall backs.

 

BALLET TECHNIQUE – TWINKLE BEAR GOES TO BALLET CLASS: CUE SHEET

Book exercises for this month:

• Tip Toe

• Chasse

After this exercise, have your dancers place their bears against the mirror to be their audience for the rest of class!  Dancers should form a line facing the mirrors.

 

CENTRE TECHNIQUES:

1. LEFT FOOT/RIGHT FOOT

   • Artist/Song: Kimbo Children’s Music/”Left Foot – Right Foot” (TDP Cut)

   • Video: The Dance Professionals Website

   • CUE SHEET

2. WARM-UP/FOOT POSITIONS: “Get Back Up Again”

• Album/Song: Trolls Soundtrack/Get Back Up Again (TDP Cut)

• Video: The Dance Professionals Website

• CUE SHEET

3. ARM POSITIONS: "Move it Like This"

• Artist/Song: Baha Men/"Move it LIke This" (TDP Cut)

• Video: See the Dance Professionals Website

• CUE SHEET

1. STEPS & TECHNIQUES: "Move Your Feet" (Snap Kicks/Kick Ball Change)

   • Album/Song: Trolls Soundtrack/"Move Your Feet, D.A.N.C.E., It's Sunshine Day" (TDP Cut)

   • Video: See the Dance Professionals Website

   • CUE SHEET

 

STRETCH

STRETCH: "A Whole New World"

• Album/Song: Aladdin Soundtrack/”A Whole New World”

• Video: Twinkle Star Dance

 

ACROSS THE FLOOR

1. SKIP EXERCISE: MOVING FORWARD

   • Album/Song: Kidz Bop Kids/"Firework"

   • Exercise:

     • 4 slow passe walks​

     • 4 slow passe walks with hops (skips)

2. CHASSE EXERCISE: Chasse side across the room (L/R)

   • Artist/Song: Retro Beach Party (Non-Stop DJ Remix)/"Beach Baby"

   • Video: The Dance Professionals Website

​

RECITAL DANCE WORK

Run old routines.  Work on new routine choreogprahy.

 

FUN DANCE

 "Stand up, Sit Down" Dance - by Tumble Tots

• Album/Song: Action Songs: Wiggle & Shake/"Stand up Sit down"

• Video: The Dance Professionals website

• Directions:  Follow words in music.  make sure your dancers are clapping in front of their forehead!

​

CLASS CLOSING/REVERENCE:

Reverence: “Be Somebody”

• Album/Song: “Leap” Soundtrack/”Be Somebody”

• Video: The Dance Professionals Website

• Props: Poms & Hula Hoop

Set-Up: Lay down two rows of pom poms to leap over and one hula hoop at the end.

Directions:  You will have the dancers sit against the mirrors.  One at a time, you will touch a student with your “magic” wand.  They will leap over the rows of pom poms, then, standing in the hula hoop will do a curtsy (girls) or bow (boys).  Everyone will clap for them.  Then they will take their place against a different wall while the rest of the class gets a turn.  After everyone has done their bow and are sitting against the wall, the teacher will give each dancer a little bit of magical sparkle dust.